John Steinbeck

I totally agree with Mr. Steinbeck. He states that there's always going to be evil so there isn't point in trying to get rid of it. I believe being mean sometimes is just a trait that every human has. So there's no way that all evil is going to be gone it's always going to going on, decade after decade after decade.

everything is a remix

so a remix is taking a song & adding more to it and changing things.
I strongly agree. That is what really came out to me throughout the video.
Everything actually is a remix, starting big from something like constitution, it's got changed and new things were added, to small things like puberty hitting a 13 year old, it changes your appearance.

"MUSIC AS LITERATURE"

Can we consider music to be literature? What is the difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony?


We can consider music to be literature because basically what music is words and sometimes a story is being told, just with sound. Which actually gives you a certain type of feeling and emotion just like reading a book would, when something is about to happen. The difference between a novel, a poem and raps, songs, operas and symphonies is just that there's sound to raps, songs, operas and symphonies. There's usually a purpose for all those, whether it is to tell a story or just to entertain. So to me, there isn't really much a difference. 

GENESIS: THE BACKGROUND OF MY BIG QUESTION

My big question is WHY DO PEOPLE FOLLOW RULES? WHY DO PEOPLE DO WHAT OTHER PEOPLE TELL THEM TO. IS IT FOR SATISFACTION IN THEMSELVES? OR??

The interest for my BQ came from all the reading that we read in class about people being sheep and following what others do. So i thought to myself "Why do we do what others tell us to do?" Sometimes we don't like what we are told to do, yet we still do it. So it this another connection to people being sheep? If that's the case then the skill i'm trying to acquire is to speak up and if i don't like what i'm being told to do, for good reasons i can argue about it with someone and win the argument and not have to put up with what they are telling me, because as if for me i do not want to be someone's sheep, i do not want to blend in with the others.

Research on Paul Simon's album Graceland

In my very own opinion I believe Graceland can, or at least is considered to me an American Literature. The notes we took in class said that "American" is anyone who is somehow related to the United States. With that being said Paul Simon was from the United States, he just had an idea to combine two whole different types of music and come up with a whole new type of music. His music comes from two different types of roots, one of them is American pop music and the other is African music. Which proves my point. :)